On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Yngve Inntjore Levinsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Debianizers, > > I uploaded the Geant4 package to git now, and are wondering if there are > anyone willing to help me fix it/improve it. Currently I have managed to > build a previous version 4.9.3.p02. The recent version, 4.9.4.p01 however, > have not been built successfully. A couple of comments: > > - The packaging depended on CERNLIB before, but since Geant4 itself should > not depend on CERNLIB anymore (?), I tried to remove the dependency > (potentially not very successfully)
Could you give me the list of symbols used from cernlib ? We could therefore depend only on a subclass of cernlib > - The package depends on CLHEP, which has a redistribution license problem. > We have been allowed to redistribute it on our unofficial CERN Debian > server, where you can find the package: http://cern.ch/lcg-heppkg/debian/ according http://proj-clhep.web.cern.ch/proj-clhep/ and https://savannah.cern.ch/projects/clhep/ it is now GPL 2 (just see later) > - I tried to build the new version against the most recent version of CLHEP, > 2.1.0.1. To get that version, contact me or do "apt-get source clhep2", > update the source ( http://proj-clhep.web.cern.ch/proj-clhep/#download ) and > build the package yourself. > > - The Geant4 package was very well constructed from the original packager, > Kevin B. McCarty. I might have broken some stuff, and misunderstood some > parts. E.g. the soversion in debian/rules have been a bit of a mystery to > me. Please fix/improve anything you see that I have done wrong. > > - I am in the final 6 months of my PhD at the moment, so I have very little > time working on this (sadly). I know though that there are quite a few > people using this package, so if we could be able to release the new version > it would be appreciated. As soon as the package builds fine I will > immediately build and release the 64bit versions on our server, and see if I > can get someone to build the 32bit versions as well. Ok fine. I understand what you will not joinable a lot. Do you plan to change of mail adress after your phd ? > - New Geant4 patch was released last week ( http://geant4.cern.ch/ ), that > should ideally be incorporated as well. What is the version control used by geant4 upstream ? Bastien > Cheers, > > Yngve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
